As a college student, maintaining a healthy, balanced diet is difficult. For vegan college students, the task is even more difficult. A vegan, by definition, does not eat or drink anything containing animal products. While it is easier to maintain a balanced vegan diet when one is able to prepare their own food, many students living in college dorms do not have that option.

“The Eclipse of America” was heard repeatedly by excited GC students on the oncoming weeks before the day of Aug. 21, 2017. Many students had classes cancelled to see the show on our main campus, and as I waited around 2:13 p.m. (when the moon began to slide over the sun) with my own friends to see it, on the horizon I saw clouds.